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Waiting for the rain : an Iraqi memoir / Lamees Al Ethari.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mawenzi House Publishers Limited, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781988449920
  • 9781988449913
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS79 .W358 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:Subject: "In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada. Through memory fragments, clips of poetry, diary entries, and her own art, the author reveals the trauma of three senseless wars, a decade of dehumanizing sanctions on an innocent population, the blindness of a dictatorship to the suffering of its own people, and finally their resilience and the humanity they manage to preserve."--
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"In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada. Through memory fragments, clips of poetry, diary entries, and her own art, the author reveals the trauma of three senseless wars, a decade of dehumanizing sanctions on an innocent population, the blindness of a dictatorship to the suffering of its own people, and finally their resilience and the humanity they manage to preserve."--

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